black-cap

When I was a boy I caught a bird, a black-cap, and I put it in a cage.

The Captain's Doll 2003

All the gorse, and the heather, and the rock, and the hot smell of yellow gorse blossom, and the sky that seemed to have no end to it, when I was a boy, everything that I almost was MAD with, as boys are, seemed to me to be in that little, fluttering black-cap.

The Captain's Doll 2003

I never had the feeling again that I got from that black-cap when I was a boy — not until I saw her.

The Captain's Doll 2003

Then come the becca-fico, the black-cap, the bull-finch, the robin, the epilais, the midget-bird, and the golden-crested wren.

The History of Animals 2002

As we left the plain and came to the undulating lands of northern Poitou, where the country twisted down to the Bienne, the hedgerows, all glimmering in gold and green, and gay with blossoming thorn, were awake with the song of the thrush and the black-cap.

Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

I am bad at the 'black-cap' game, but I'll tell you what I will do.

On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913

Does not the moon tell you, the black-cap on the willow when it says farewell to the sun?

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

Streamlets meander here amid rustling canes and a luxuriant growth of mares 'tails and creepers; their banks are shaded by elms and poplars -- Horatian trees; the thickets are loud with songs of nightingale, black-cap and oriole.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

As will be seen in another chapter, I afterwards heard the mountain chickadee's song on the western side of the range, and found it to be quite unlike the minor strain of our pleasant black-cap of the East.

Birds of the Rockies 1896

The mountain tit seems to be a shy and quiet little body when compared with the common black-cap known in the East.

Birds of the Rockies 1896